The Commission on Elections started its efforts at modernizing or automating the electoral process way back in 1992, immediately after the first Synchronized National and Local Elections (NLE). With the first pilot testing of an automated election system using the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) technology in the 1996 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Elections, to the partial implementation in the ARMM provinces of the same automated system in the 1998 National and Local Elections, to the halted nationwide implementation of a centralized automated counting system for the 2004 NLE, and to the pilot test of a fully automated election system in the 2008 ARMM Elections, the COMELEC continues to fulfill its mandate of conducting elections – be it manual or automated.
For the coming 2010 elections, the COMELEC is set to conduct the country’s first nationwide fully automated elections – from counting of votes to transmission and canvassing of election results. Please browse through our Election Automation web pages to find out more about the modernization or automation of the Philippine electoral process.
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